a-horrible-way-to-dan:

Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Dir: George A. Romero

flower-crowns-and-combat-boots:

mostlysignssomeportents:

The 1941 Disney animator’s strike was bitterly fought, as Walt Disney refused to grant the concessions that all the other animation studios had agreed to, and instead grew paranoid and accusatory, convinced the “Communist infiltrators” had turned his animators against him.

One poorly remembered – but vivid! – moment from the strike was when Chuck Jones led Warner animators came to join the picket line in solidarity, bringing with them a working guillotine with a mannequin styled to look like Gunther Lessing, the Disney attorney.

Archivist John Basmajian has preserved and digitized a film of the guillotine, along with many other Disney rarities.

As Gizmodo’s Mat Novak notes, we tend to gloss over the more radical elements in union history in our contemporary retellings of famous strikes, but these were not polite, timid affairs. Unions attained their goals through radical, relentless action that put them at risk and brooked no compromise.

https://boingboing.net/2019/11/26/radical-art.html

An old tumblr post said something that stuck with me:

“Labor unions were created so the workers didn’t just barge into the owner’s office, drag him into the street, and eat him in front of his family, and corporations seem to have forgotten this.”

The sentiment is hyperbolic but the message is clear.

anarchistcommunism:

Minneapolis Organizers Are Already Building the Tools for Safety Without Police

Minneapolis is creating a police-free future in real time.

Truthout

In the past two weeks since Mr. Floyd’s brutal murder at the hands of the MPD, Minneapolis has seen community members step up to fill the gaps where our city, state and county systems have failed us. We’ve created community fire brigades, a people’s ambulance, a transit support system, food banks and hot meal bars, and community safety and defense teams. There have been informal teach-ins, and petitions to cut MPD contracts from museums, business events and schools. Neighbors are talking to each other and actually getting to know who lives on their street.

last-to-the-orgy:

crypt-of-the-undead:

Army of Darkness (1993)

movieposters-restored:

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

hexabeast:

Cat’s asleep, quick, stack stuff on her.